Posted by Runeslinger on October 2, 2012 · 4 Comments
This post is intended both to help newcomers to All for One: Regime Diabolique get into the game more smoothly by discussing elements of the combat systems which can raise questions, and offer some ideas for transitioning from other game systems to Ubiquity. This post will look at physical and social combat. Subsequent posts will look … Continue reading →
Posted by Runeslinger on September 21, 2012 · 6 Comments
It has been ages since I posted about my Mechwarrior campaign. There has been a lot to say, some of which ended up in Shadowscasts 6 and 7, but there has been a lack of time to do much more than that. To make a long story short, we put the campaign on Indefinite Hiatus. … Continue reading →
Category A Time of War, A Time of War Actual Play, Battletech, Battletech / Mechwarrior, Campaign Recaps, Live Game Report, Mechwarrior Live Game Reports, Preparation and Preparedness, The Blog, Themes and Intentions · Tagged with Battletech, campaign change, Games, gaming, Mechwarrior, Roleplay, Star League, Succession War
Posted by Runeslinger on September 11, 2012 · 5 Comments
The phrase ‘alien geometry’ conjures up a lot of bizarre images when given time and space in our fragile, human, thought continuities… even after we graduate from school. To some of us, standard geometry can get pretty alien. In Korea, particularly older parts of Seoul, even those with a firm grasp of angles and armed … Continue reading →
Posted by Runeslinger on September 2, 2012 · 4 Comments
At GenCon 2012, so the story goes, Greymalkin Designs released a limited run of hardcover copies of their new RPG, Broken Rooms. Not having been anywhere near that side of the Earth, I must content myself with the PDF obtained from my friendly enabler Drivethrurpg to take a look at it. Update: Curious about the … Continue reading →
Posted by Runeslinger on August 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Our Mutant City Blues campaign started off with a brief out-of-character discussion about how the Heightened Crimes Unit would be represented in Montreal, an overview of altered history and the future’s altered history, a primer on changes in Montreal, and then we segued into the Google Drive Document for the start of in-character play. That we are doing … Continue reading →
Category Live Game Report, Mutant City Blues, Technical Questions, The Blog · Tagged with Character creation, Character Development, GUMSHOE System, Mutant City Blues, pelgrane press, Play-by-mail game, Role-playing game, setting development